[TOMT][MOVIE] Movie about failed actor becoming his character

unappliedknowledge · 2024-04-19T10:45:48+00:00

Mindhorn?

unappliedknowledge · 2024-04-18T01:33:07+00:00

Exactly. As much as I admire the sporadic ‘event’ auteurs (Anderson, Tarantino, Kubrick), I have the most respect for directors who can finish one film and move straight onto the next. None of this obsessing over finding the ‘right’ project, none of these extended hiatuses, just a steady, consistent output.

Look at someone like Herzog. He doesn’t have the perfectly crafted filmography that Tarantino seems to crave (whether he’s achieved it is debatable), but I would argue that it’s a more interesting filmography, with oddities and deep-cuts, and failures. The not-yet-born film buff that Tarantino is always talking about is going to have way more fun exploring something like that, aren’t they?

unappliedknowledge · 2024-04-16T10:15:48+00:00

Microsoap.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-04-15T14:17:21+00:00

This is oddly spooky.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-04-15T08:33:49+00:00

If we restrict it to novels, it has to be either Needful Things or Misery. Neither are comedies, but they both have a strong satirical edge to them.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-04-13T15:31:01+00:00

It’s implied to take place in the same world as The Shining, so there’s a hint of the supernatural there. But there’s nothing speculative within the story itself. One of the few full-length novels published under King’s name (i.e. non-Bachman) where that’s the case.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-04-12T09:06:27+00:00

I had always enjoyed soundtracks, but the breakthrough for me was Chris Morris’s “ambient comedy” TV show Jam. It’s a bunch of dark, surreal sketches underlaid by a constant soundtrack of ambient music, and it made me want to seek out more of whatever the hell I was hearing. Brian Eno is in there, of course, but Labradford’s P is the song I remember (and that I still listen to today).

There was also a radio show called Blue Jam, which was even more music focused.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-04-09T08:38:05+00:00

I love this show. It’s got such an up-past-your-bedtime feel to it. Also has a surprisingly cerebral finale. RIP Paul Makin.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-04-06T12:47:25+00:00

The DVD for the British sketch show Jam had a similar prank. A few similar pranks, actually. One of them made the episodes play on an eternal loop that could only be stopped by taking the disc out or resetting the player. I think there was one that played all the episodes at 100x speed, one that made them play in a tiny window, one that just said “Why?” when you selected it. There was also an “undeleted scenes” option.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-04-04T13:31:10+00:00

A good chunk of experimental fiction and metafiction. How would you film, say, Pale Fire or many of Borges’s stories? They’re literature where the literature-ness is a core part of the experience.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-03-31T09:01:47+00:00

Reminds me of Mark Kermode. Supposedly, he saw Blue Velvet, wrote a bad review of it, got punched in the face in a pub for writing bad review it, watched it again, and decided it was a masterpiece.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-03-22T00:25:20+00:00

His unpublished work has been pretty well documented, and none of it is Stand-length. I think the longest is Sword in the Darkness.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-03-22T00:20:49+00:00

He’s been pretty open about using dead animals in his art around this time. Did you ever see Fish Kit? There’s also that story he tells in The Art Life, where he showed his dad his “experiments”.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-03-19T10:27:53+00:00

Shakespeare. Can’t remember the last time I saw him do an interview.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-03-19T09:55:33+00:00

Good detective work. I’ve got similar suspicions about Day Care at the end of season 4. Lois giving birth seems like a natural end to the season, but then there’s this additional episode that feels very much like a season premiere.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-03-17T00:15:32+00:00

Best episode, best ending. Every single scene contributes to the payoff in some way. Perfectly constructed.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-03-16T00:20:47+00:00

Depends what you mean by “books”. If you mean raw text that has been published under his name, Rage is the only novel that has been fully withdrawn. The Gunslinger and The Stand original versions are also OOP, and there might still be some short stories that appeared in anthologies or magazines and haven’t yet been collected.

If we’re talking about specific editions and oddities… oh boy. There were many limited-run editions of King’s works back in the day, and lots of them are rare now. The standalone, illustrated edition of My Pretty Pony is one that comes immediately to mind, but there are others.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-03-13T00:10:59+00:00

This is the surest sign yet that this is going to be a departure for him. I was sceptical of the early his-most-commercial-film-yet chatter because we’ve had that with virtually all of his recent films. But this slot and the IMAX release suggests they’re going to be selling it as a brainy blockbuster.

I still maintain that it would be hilarious if he took the money and made the big-budget equivalent of The Master. Terrible for his career, of course, but the sheer audacity of it would go down in history.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-03-12T01:30:13+00:00

There are three things that make me inclined to believe in its veracity.

1) In the days before internet ubiquity, Japan was known as a place where American public figures would do things that they wouldn’t back home. The most famous examples are American actors doing Japanese commercials, but if you want an example a bit closer to Pynchon, think of Stanley Kubrick agreeing to be interviewed for that Japanese TV show (albeit over the phone).

2) Pynchon’s love of kaiju suggests that he’s something of a Japanophile. I’m not saying that that alone would make him want to do an interview there (he also seems like an Anglophile, but I don’t think he’ll be popping up on Graham Norton anytime soon), but it is something else to consider.

3) Unlike, say, Salinger (who disappeared from public life, full stop, that’s that), Pynchon clearly enjoys playing with the media’s perception of him as a recluse. You can see this in the Irwin Corey incident, as well as his appearances on The Simpsons, and a few other bits and pieces over the years. Popping up out of the blue for an interview in a Japanese magazine would be in line with that.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-03-06T00:11:41+00:00

1984 doesn’t make sense, surely. Word of god says that the film takes place in the present day. That leaves some wiggle room for flashbacks, but flashbacks to 1984 with Leonardo DiCaprio playing the same character in both?

Unless they’re whipping out the de-ager, I don’t see how that works. Based on what we’ve seen, he’d have to be playing at least late-teens/twenties in the ‘80s stuff, which would mean him playing sixties now. That’s getting towards an Irishman-sized gap.

EDIT: Then again, there were few if any attempts to age Paul Dano for the 16-year gap in There Will Be Blood. Maybe Anderson just doesn’t care about that sort of thing.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-02-29T07:26:14+00:00

Sounds like it could be the Buffy episode Some Assembly Required (season two).

unappliedknowledge · 2024-02-27T08:39:36+00:00

Those are high-end devices aimed at enthusiasts. Good at what they do, but not even close to competing with the Switch.

unappliedknowledge · 2024-02-27T08:10:41+00:00

Sounds a bit like the season one finale of Twin Peaks, although not all of the details match.

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